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6.What is the advantage of only allowing meetings on one day a week? 
a Innovation and Creativity 
b Solving issues without needing a meeting 
c Shorter meeting times 
d Having more meetings 
7. A productive meeting is _______? 
a Unhelpful 
b Worthwhile 
c Fruitless 
d A waste of time 
8. Which of these is NOT a definition of pointless? 
a Irrelevant 
b Without reason 
c Necessary 
d Aimless 
7. Read and retell the text 
North Dakota, the USA's second leading oil producer 
 

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North Dakota has passed Alaska to become the second-leading oil-producing 
state in the nation, trailing only Texas, state officials said Tuesday. 
North Dakota oil drillers pumped 17.8 million barrels in March, with a daily 
average of 575,490 barrels, Assistant State Mineral Resources Director Bruce Hicks 
said. That compares with 17.5 million barrels in Alaska, though still far behind 
Texas. 
The state's oil patch is drilling at record levels and shows little sign of slowing 
down. The 152.9 million barrels of crude oil produced in 2011 set a record, 
surpassing the previous year's mark by nearly 40 million barrels, according to the 
state Industrial Commission. The number of wells in the state jumped from 6,726 in 
February to a record 6,921 in March, Hicks said. 
North Dakota owes its rapid rise from No. 9 in just six years to improved 
horizontal drilling techniques in the rich Bakken shale and Three Forks formations in 
the western part of the state. 
"No. 2, who would have thought?" said Ron Ness, president of the North 
Dakota Petroleum Council, which represents several hundred companies working in 
the state's oil patch. "In 1999, we had zero rigs working and people left this industry 
for dead in North Dakota. Technology, geology, price and the business climate 
changed that." 
Ness and Hicks said the achievement is bittersweet, as North Dakota 
continues to surpass states that have seen a decrease in oil production, including 
California and Louisiana.